I would like to describe a rule that I learned long ago from a wise primary care doctor working on our first electronic health record in Kaiser Permanente in Colorado. His name was Ed McAuliffe, and he reminded us of his principle often enough that we all took to calling it “McAuliffe’s Rule.” Whenever we were fretting about the (often important) flaws in the electronic solution we were considering at any particular moment, Ed would often say “yes, but isn’t this still better than what we do now?”